Hàn

"The “northern dialects” are in English usually called Mandarin dialects (a translation of the older term guānhuà 官話 /官话 (guānhuà) ‘officials’ speech’), though “Mandarin” is sometimes also used in a narrower sense to denote standard Mandarin or pǔtōnghuà. These dialects are spoken by over 70% of the Hàn population, in about three-fourths of the Hàn-speaking area, including all areas of Hàn settlement north of the Chángjiāng (Yangtze) and part of its southern bank, and the southwestern provinces of Sìchuān (Szechwan), Yúnnán, and Guìzhōu (Kweichow)."